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Rag Radio 2023-05-26 -Lewis Simons, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Foreign Correspondent & Journalist Allen Young

by: Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer

Publication date: 2023-05-26

Topics: Rag Radio, Lew Simons, Lewis Simons, Authors, Allen Young, Journalists, Foreign Correspondent, To Tell the Truth, Thorne Dreyer, Pulitzer Prize

Lewis Simons and Allen Young are Thorne Dreyer’s guests on Rag Radio in a show first broadcast on Friday, May 26, 2023.

Pulitzer Prize winner Lewis M. Simons is the author of To Tell the Truth: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent. Allen Young, who studied journalism at Columbia with Simons, wrote a review of To Tell the Truth for The Rag Blog on April 21, 2023.

Lew Simons began his career as a foreign correspondent in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War. He saw the war through to the end, covering the fall in quick succession of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Since then, Simons has reported on war, civil unrest, politics and economics from throughout Southeast Asia; India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh; Iraq and Iran; China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea, as well as the former Soviet Union. He was a staff correspondent for The Associated Press, the Washington Post, Time, and Knight-Ridder Newspapers.

Simons won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, in 1986, for exposing the billions that the Marcos family looted from the Philippines. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism named the series one of 50 Great Stories of the Century. Simons was twice more a Pulitzer finalist and has received numerous other journalism awards.

Allen Young has lived in rural North Central Massachusetts since 1973 and is an active member of several local environmental organizations. Young worked for Liberation News Service in Washington, D.C., and New York City, from 1967 to 1970. He has been an activist-writer in the New Left and gay liberation movements, including numerous items published at The Rag Blog. He is author or editor of 15 books, including his 2018 autobiography, Left, Gay & Green; A Writer’s Life — and a review of this book can be found in the Rag Blog archives.

Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run, solar powered community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with The Rag Blog and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is streamed live on the Internet at KOOP.org. The host and producer of Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, is a prominent Austin-based activist and writer who was a pioneer of the ’60s underground press movement.

The show’s engineer and associate producer is Tracey Schulz and the staff photographer is Roger Baker; Suzy Shelor is Rag Radio associate; Alice Embree is a frequent guest host; and Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda are our political analysts.

This show was broadcast (and streamed) live Friday, 2-3 p.m.CDT on KOOP, and was later rebroadcast and streamed on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., on Houston Pacifica's KPFT HD-3 90.1, by KKRN, 88.5-FM in Round Mountain, CA, and at WALHRadio.com in Wilmington, OH. Learn more about Rag Radio here.

Contact: ragradio@koop.org.

Running time: 52:01.